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" We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense. "

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" I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians. "

" Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later. "

" I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess. "

" I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.' "

" For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s. "

" When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band. "

" Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world. "

" When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it. "

" The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people. "

" I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that's what I really care about, is just giving. "

" All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people. "

" As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is. "

" After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way. "

" For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on. "

" With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing. "

" The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough. "

" The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive. "

" I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner. "

" I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school. "

" You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to from living in the world, and then they can make their own decisions. "

" The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting. "

" I always thought I was a pretty terrible actor. "

" I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it. "

" We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual. "

" I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am. "

" When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker. "

" We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal. "

" I studied chord theory and started playing the piano. "

" I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician. "

" I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history. "